After TwitViewer, five handy tips for staying safe

Twitter has been aflutter this morning over a site called TwitViewer which claims to allow users to see who's stalking them on the microblogging service simply by entering their username and password.

In fact – gasp! - it's a scam, designed to rob users of their login details which can then be used to spam others.

For the benefit of those unlucky enough to be fooled by TwitViewer into handing over their private information – despite years of warnings about phishing scams – here are a few more tips for living a risk-free life…

- Don't hand over you login details to a site you've never heard of, just because you see it mentioned on Twitter.

- Dr Klement Okon from Nigeria does not have $3m that he wishes to urgently transfer to you 'in the most of utmost confidence'.